Breaking through the CoHo and ACOTAR sides of booktok is so rewarding because now I never have to hear about Bat Boys and accidental pregnancy tropes ever again
Girl you are actually so funny!! Tiktok has given me some of the worst book recs ever and then Instagram is the same book trash series constantly being reposted. Never ending loop until you get the algorithm to understand your personal taste!
tiktok is good for book recommendations only if you’re specifically looking for authors and genres you know you like. if you’re reading something just because it is popular online then i think you’re automatically going to like it less than if you found it because it aligns with your interests because you’re reading it just to feel included. honestly i like watching book recommendation videos just in order to get motivated to find books i want to read not necessarily for the books in the video since my interests in books are pretty niche 😭 i loved this video though you’re awesome
When I first started reading again in 2023, thankfully the only booktok books I got sucked into were Taylor Jenkins Reid books. I ordered Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and Daisy Jones and the Six. I actually really liked Evelyn Hugo but DNF Daisy Jones. The writing was so cringe and I couldn’t get over it and I was upset I spent money on it My favorite booktok books when I first got on there were the song of Achilles and Circe which are some of my favorite books now
Its so hard for me to identify just one good book recommendation from tiktok. Probably the most lasting one for me is any Brandon Sanderson book. I think I originally heard about The Way of Kings ~4-5 years ago and read the whole series 4 years ago. I'm actually working through finishing all Cosmere books now. Ive also loved Legendborn, Red Rising, Silver Under Nightfall, A Dowry of Blood, and Gideon the Ninth. The worst rec was an indie published romance novel that I have blocked the name from my memory lol. The author posted a marketing thing that was like text messages between the MMC and FMC. I fell for that and bought it. The prose and dialogue were awful and the plot was nonsensical. Tessa Bailey was also horrible. Kingdom of the Feared was also bad. I DNFed Savage Lands also.
I wanted to looove babel, but I din't feel there was anything really that original about it. Of course, its story about colonialism is very important, but I felt that because she stayed so close to the truth (the fact that the magic system was just industrialism and electricity..) it lost its spark. Also, the characters were one-dimensional and stereotyped. They were reduced to their identities complete with racial stereotypes. She could have done so much because the characters represented different nations, cultures, and diversities which could have brought so much to the story. But instead you just had the serious one, the ignorant one, the witty one and the naive one.
Breaking through the CoHo and ACOTAR sides of booktok is so rewarding because now I never have to hear about Bat Boys and accidental pregnancy tropes ever again
@@Mangomonett Truly, I never get content from either of them on my feed now!
Girl you are actually so funny!! Tiktok has given me some of the worst book recs ever and then Instagram is the same book trash series constantly being reposted. Never ending loop until you get the algorithm to understand your personal taste!
@@TheSamsReading I have yet to get a single book rec from Instagram, it all feels so bleh and “follow for follow” type content over there
Icebreaker was very hard to get through. I wouldn't have picked it up, if it weren't a buddy read 🤣
Obsesssed with these! Highly agree with CoHo and Seven Days In June. Seven Days In June is SO GOOD. It deserves SO MANY FLOWERS
tiktok is good for book recommendations only if you’re specifically looking for authors and genres you know you like. if you’re reading something just because it is popular online then i think you’re automatically going to like it less than if you found it because it aligns with your interests because you’re reading it just to feel included. honestly i like watching book recommendation videos just in order to get motivated to find books i want to read not necessarily for the books in the video since my interests in books are pretty niche 😭 i loved this video though you’re awesome
I hope you'll continue uploading to TH-cam even if TikTok might stay up. Your longer videos are just as fun to watch :))
I need to pick up Bunny by Mona Awad
i finished it literally a minute ago and am shocked wow such an interesting read
@toonieblue I love that!! I have had it on my radar for too long 🤣 It sounds so interesting!
wait the "dear ellen" parts of it ends with us was my favorite part, it was so sweet to me, but hated every other part of it
I couldn’t do it 😭 and naming the kid Dory rip
I perfectly understand why the Ellen parts on It Ends with Us made you DNF that book. I read them with "cringe eye".
wait mandy... youre telling me i have to put in WORK to find books i might enjoy???
When I first started reading again in 2023, thankfully the only booktok books I got sucked into were Taylor Jenkins Reid books. I ordered Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and Daisy Jones and the Six. I actually really liked Evelyn Hugo but DNF Daisy Jones. The writing was so cringe and I couldn’t get over it and I was upset I spent money on it
My favorite booktok books when I first got on there were the song of Achilles and Circe which are some of my favorite books now
Its so hard for me to identify just one good book recommendation from tiktok. Probably the most lasting one for me is any Brandon Sanderson book. I think I originally heard about The Way of Kings ~4-5 years ago and read the whole series 4 years ago. I'm actually working through finishing all Cosmere books now.
Ive also loved Legendborn, Red Rising, Silver Under Nightfall, A Dowry of Blood, and Gideon the Ninth.
The worst rec was an indie published romance novel that I have blocked the name from my memory lol. The author posted a marketing thing that was like text messages between the MMC and FMC. I fell for that and bought it. The prose and dialogue were awful and the plot was nonsensical. Tessa Bailey was also horrible. Kingdom of the Feared was also bad. I DNFed Savage Lands also.
When I first joined booktok and read credence because of how much it was recommended to me. I was so mad I almost deleted the app
@@MalinaNgolet Not Credence 😭 I’ve never read it thankfully and I never will 🙅♀️
When I started reading better books I realised how terrible acotar plot holes were lol
I hate to say it but I DNFed Babel. I found it really boring and the tone and vibe felt condescending.
I wanted to looove babel, but I din't feel there was anything really that original about it. Of course, its story about colonialism is very important, but I felt that because she stayed so close to the truth (the fact that the magic system was just industrialism and electricity..) it lost its spark. Also, the characters were one-dimensional and stereotyped. They were reduced to their identities complete with racial stereotypes. She could have done so much because the characters represented different nations, cultures, and diversities which could have brought so much to the story. But instead you just had the serious one, the ignorant one, the witty one and the naive one.
@ yes this very succinctly describes my issues with it